Dysidea sp (2328) - Societe - Tahiti

Dysidea sp. (OTU QM2328) OTU QM2328

Dictyoceratida Dysideidae

External characters

thin plates.

Colour

grey in life; beige in ethanol.

Skeletal Characters

Oscules not obvious.
Texture soft, compressible, fibrous, easily torn.
Surface_Ornamentation finely conulose, opaque, membranous.
Ectosomal_Skeleton membranous; little differentiation from choanosome; diatoms packed into top layer of ectosome.
Choanosomal_Skeleton fibrous; fibres relatively sparse, pithed, laminated, cored with detritus and foreign spicules; mesohyl collagen very poor, homogeneous.
Megascleres nil.
Microscleres nil.
Mudmap_Author K Hall
Mudmap_Editor K Hall

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Tahiti

Ecology and habitat

Enter of the pass.

Hooper, J.N.A. (2014). QM2328 Dysidea sp. In: Hall, K.A. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2014) SpongeMaps: an online community for taxonomy and identification of sponges. (Available at http://www.spongemaps.org).